HT to Andrew Stuttaford of National Review for this article. A necessary reminder that the fact of Che Guevara's life is he was a murderer, Communist, and the founder of the Cuban gulags. Keep that in mind if you see the movie version of The Motorcycle Diaries that exalt the myth of Guevara as a freedom fighter.
Here is an excerpt:
Che was an enemy of freedom, and yet he has been erected into a symbol of freedom. He helped establish an unjust social system in Cuba and has been erected into a symbol of social justice. He stood for the ancient rigidities of Latin-American thought, in a Marxist-Leninist version, and he has been celebrated as a free-thinker and a rebel.
Hopefully the truth will soon get in the way of the myth of Guevara's life.
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